C&P Engineering Services have recently completed the Costain Supply Chain Academy, a new initiative that aims to support and develop small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs), covering 20 modules ranging from business administration, commercial and financial best practice, insurance, health & safety, behavioural safety and quality.

The Academy has been launched to align Costain’s supply chain partners with the high standard of training and development adopted across the Group. The initiative is also in line with Costain Cares, Costain’s vision to build a longer-term sustainable business that creates economic, environmental and social value.

Supply Chain Management is the management of material and information flow in a supply chain to provide the highest degree of customer satisfaction at the lowest possible cost. It also plays an integral part of any business and is essential to company success by optimising operations to maximise both speed and efficiency and can provide a business with a competitive advantage. (more…)